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Monday, September 28, 2009

PWR's First Pick!

We have started our own small wine company, PWR Wines. The PWR stands for the People's Wine Revolution. The purpose of this blog is not to promote PWR Wines, although we strive to produce wines that would fit right in here. That is, wines that deliver high quality at low prices.

But today was our first ever pick, and we wanted to share the news. We found an old, head-trained vineyard in St. Helena planted to a mix of Zinfandel and Petite Sirah, with a little bit of Viognier. We only managed to bring in 0.37 tons, barely enough to fill a single barrel, but the fruit looked beautiful on the sorting table. Here are a few pictures of our triumph!

One of two half-full bins ready to go.

Sorting the grapes: removing leaves, etc.

The "full" bin, ready to begin fermentation.

We are now in the thick of harvest and there simply are not enough hours in the day to do everything we want to do. We have a long list of wines and other discoveries to tell you about, and we will in good time. Hang in there, dear readers.

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Thank you for visiting Wines for the People, the mouthpiece for The People's Wine Revolution, based in Calistoga, California. Our introductory message will give you a sense of the blog's purpose, and the Welcome, New Readers post is a handy index to all of the posts here, arranged by subject. Well, most of them, anyway. We're too busy making wine to keep the index fully up to date.We welcome your comments!

About Me

We are Matt Reid and Marcy Webb, winemakers in Napa Valley who intend to revolutionize wine by bringing it to the people--ruling class wines at working class prices.
Although our labor of love is PWR Wines, this blog is not an advertising platform for that brand. The opinions expressed herein are ours personally, and should not be considered advertising claims or statements on behalf of PWR. For instance, when we say that TTB (our federal agency in charge of regulating wine, among many other things) should not inhibit the free speech of winery owners, that is our own opinion, and should not be taken as a statement attributable to PWR. Actually, we suspect PWR would have something stronger to say.
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